F. C. THORPE,


Importer of all Varieties of Foreign

Birds and (flaterfoml.


ANIMALS IMPORTED TO ORDER.


All Birds kept in Aviaries not Cages, and sent on approval.


SOUTH PARADE, HULL.


Stock in hand February 21, 1905.


i pair Red Mountain Doves £2 10/- pair, 5 pairs Talpacoti Doves 10/6

pair, 1 pair Picui Doves 12/6 pair, 3 pairs Cambayan Doves beauties 12/6

pair, Australian Crested Doves 20/- pair, Chinese Quails 20/- pair, Pennant’s

Parrakeets 50/- pair, have laid. Yellow Budgerigars 20/- pair.


6 pairs Ruddy Sheldrakes £2 pair, 1 Spotted-billed Duck, £1, 2 pairs

adult Carolina Ducks 50/- pair, Chinese Goose g'6, East Indian Ducks 12/-

pair, Albino Wild Ducks £i pair, 1 Gold Sparrow hen 6/6, 2 pairs Anas

superciliosa or Australian Wild Ducks 30/- pair.


Trumpeter Bullfinches 10/6 pair, Cockatiels 6/6 each, Seal}’or Grace¬

ful Doves 25/- pair, White Java Doves 6/6, Indian Collared Doves 7/6 pair,

Porto Rico Doves 40/- pair, very fine birds, Crowned Black Tauagers 25/-

pair, Orange-head Troupials 20/- each, Ringneck Parrakeets 2/6 each, Brush

Bronzewing Doves 50/- pair, Bronze-necked Doves 20/-, Chinese Zosterops

12/6 pair, Goffiti’s Cockatoos, 2 Hyacinthine Macaws, 1 Lear’s Macaws, cock

Red rump Parrakeets 30/- pair, Many-coloured Parrakeet hen £2 5/-, i pair

Great-billed Parrakeets (Palceornis magnirostris) true pair perfect condition

£4., Yorkshire Canaries 20/- pair. Half-masked Weavers 6/6 each. .Spur-

winged Geese £5 pair, x rare Black-throated Yellow Oriole 50/-, 10 pairs

Bar-head Geese, £2 to/- pair, 20 Sham as, r Pied Albino Tanager, 2 cock

Red-cappedParrots £2 each, r Blue-bearded Jay 35/-, I Bare-eyed Cockatoo

30/-, 2 pairs Mandarin Ducks 30/- pair, Golden-fronted Fruitsuckers 30/-

each, Blue-fronted Amazons 30/- each, perfect feather.


Black-headed Conures 20/- each, White-eared ditto 15/- each, Black

Larks 12/- each, 2 rare cock White-rumped Black Chats £2 each (Pratincola

caprata ), 1 Sliama (one claw off) 20/-. 1 talking Lesser Hill Mynah, fine


bird, 3 talking acclimatised Grey Parrots, one says ten words ^3 10/-, one

thirty words ^4 to/-, another about seventy words £7 10/-. I Giant Wliydah

12 Barnard’s Parrakeets. Pair White Muscovy Ducks 12/-, pair adult Black

Swans £6 10/-, 5 pairs Teal 10/6 pair, 7 drake Wigeons 6/- each, 4 pairs

Rosy-billed Ducks /.2 pair, 7 drake Mandarins, 2 years in England, 17/6

each, pair Magpie Geese, ditto, ^5, 1 male each Paradise and Australian

Slielducks. 2 male Grey and Green Tauagers 20/- each, 1 rare Great-billed

Cockatoo £8, 6 pairs Cordon Bleus 3 6 pair. Due in April: Great White

Siberian Crane, Common Crane, Blue Coots, Argus Pheasants. Due in May :

Sliamas, Fruitsuckers, etc. Due in about two weeks time: Giant Whydahs,

etc. ; also Waxwiugs, Nutctackers, rare Waxbills, etc. from the Continent.

Stock Always Changing.



